Here’s a post from Wal Bryant on Stella Blue (Landfall 38) in Mexico (posted 
with his permission); he’s in the more direct path of Willa right now:

> And so it begins. Willa to the North, Vicente to the south. And me in the 
> middle. (I think that's a classic quote from Clint Eastwood's 'For a Fistful 
> of Dollars.') 
> The worry is Willa. It's going to hit to the North, and with anticlockwise 
> rotation the wind and swell is going to come straight from the Southwest. The 
> Bay is wide open from that direction, and yesterday Mike Michael Eric 
> Danielson 
> <https://www.facebook.com/michaelericdanielson?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAPZO8bWPOEnH1pGrSEaO6HTCxzYMVAsKXr3P0XYzqFWAPOFsMyVuuQrRpAjY03SxMQ6dYiG_2BhruN&fref=mentions>
>  at PV Sailing said the swell forecast was for 20 foot swells. I've sailed my 
> boat through 20 foot seas, and used the EFF word a few times. Having them hit 
> shallow water and slam into the breakwater will be something to watch. I 
> think it's entirely possible that waves will wash over the breakwater into 
> the marina. The breakwater itself is relatively new, and hasn't filled in 
> with sand and sediment. When there is surge outside, boats inside still move 
> around. A lot.
> So I spent today adding dock lines, and setting up spare dock lines, and 
> taping around hatches that have leaky gaskets, and making an inventory of 
> rope. I have more rope on this boat than is reasonable. People laugh at me. 
> But once, a couple of years ago, a barge broke loose and I had 400 feet of 
> rope. It came in handy. 
> As soon as I was done getting my lines and my backup lines ready, the rain 
> started. The hurricane is still two days off. This is just the outer fringe.
> Walking around this morning, I seemed to be the only one preparing. I saw 
> someone doing brightwork (varnishing teak.) I mentioned the situation to 
> someone else, and she said "We talked to Long-Timers and they said it's no 
> big deal." Well, I've been in Pacific Mexico for nine years, and this is only 
> the second time I've set up to get hit by sh_t. And it's the first time I've 
> pulled a couple of lines over to the pilings two feet above the spring tide 
> high water mark. 
> I've seen 50 with gusts to 70, and that was at anchor where the boat was 
> pointed into the wind. I'm really not worried about wind, I'm worried about 
> wind swell.
> I think tomorrow a bunch of people will be running around in the rain doing 
> what I did this morning. I'll be inside the boat making sure my bilge pumps 
> are clear and the through hulls are closed and the last minute details are 
> done. Then I'll adjust the lines to move the boat boat away from the dock, 
> put on my Helly Hansen jacket and hope that the people who said "It's 
> nothing" were right and I was totally wrong. I really hope that all I've done 
> is give my spare dock lines a good rinse.

Let’s wish him luck.

— Fred

Fred Street -- Minneapolis
S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI   :^(

> On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:16 PM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List 
> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> 
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/22/powerful-east-coast-storm-may-develop-friday-into-weekend/?utm_term=.a559c2294827
>  
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/22/powerful-east-coast-storm-may-develop-friday-into-weekend/?utm_term=.a559c2294827>
>  
> Yikes!
>  
>  
> Joe
> Coquina
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